Fall 2015
This design imagines this new public institution as a collection of buildings within a box. Dividing the box into fragments help better digest various kinds and great scale of program requirement. This collection supports the various functions of the library in an interior urban ensemble that creates experiences within each fragment as well as through and across the in-between space that separates them. Except spheres that help visually connect these fragments together, a building with all tilted planes physically connect these fragments by extending the plane to provide circulation between them. This anomaly is also the most public fragment that offers a place to encounter and communicate with people. To further giving these fragmented buildings unique identities, different use of spheres create memorable spherical rooms both inside and between those fragments. Although spheres change in number, scale, configuration and color from building to building, they still provide a shared character that referred to other parts of interior. The use of vivid colors is a chromatic array that reinforce the different identities of the collections. It visually attracts people of younger age to visit library more often and help distribute themselves based on personal color preference.
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